CHICHESTER, West Sussex, UK—It is a quarter century since director Harry Christophers first took his vocal group The Sixteen on a Choral Pilgrimage, visiting some of the finest cathedrals in the U.K. He started the group 21 years earlier, … » Read

The world premiere of Timothy Higgins’s  Market Street, 1920s on Oct. 3 by the San Francisco Symphony led The San Francisco Chronicle  critic to describe the work as a collision between “one rather straightlaced theme … » Read

Among a handful of new opera recordings, few labels are as adventurous as BMOP/sound. Working in tandem with Odyssey Opera and Boston Modern Orchestra Project, their latest release is the debut studio recording of Dominick Argento’s gothic … » Read

CHICAGO—Gathering an audience at Chicago’s newest music venue on a recent evening, Seth Boustead introduced himself: composer, founder and president of the nonprofit Access Contemporary Music, and, as of earlier that day, … » Read

LONDON—This season marks the first time English National Opera will divide its programming between London and Manchester in a controversial move forced upon it by Arts Council England. If the company is fazed by the challenge, it … » Read

The Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall has long been home to avant-garde spectaculars. A 2008 production of Bernd Zimmerman’s Die Soldaten propelled the audience around on railroad tracks; a 2016 staging of Louis Andriessen's De Materi e … » Read

LOS ANGELES—Two weeks after he inaugurated his term as Music and Artistic Director-Designate of the New York Philharmonic on Sep. 11, Gustavo Dudamel  opened his final season as Music and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—With the softly gleaming pedal-point chord that opened the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 on September 26, a sense that something special was in store began to take hold. The … » Read

Pene Pati revealed, toward the close of his Park Avenue Armory recital, that his program had consisted of songs that he and pianist Ronny Michael Greenberg had often performed together. In light of what we had just heard, his disclosure made … » Read

The reconstruction of Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims was one of the late 20th century’s most significant musicological achievements for opera goers. After four performances at Paris’s Théâtre Italian, with a cast … » Read